Fennel

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Fennel is a programming language created in 2016 by Calvin Rose.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/bakpakin/fennel

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207Repos

Lua Lisp Language

Fennel website
Fennel is developed on GitHub and has 1,699 stars
There are at least 207 Fennel repos on GitHub
Fennel first developed in https://lists.sr.ht/%7Etechnomancy/fennel
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 12 users using Fennel in 12 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Fennel
fennel-lang.org was registered in 2018

Example from the web:

;; Sample: read the state of the keyboard and move the player accordingly
(local dirs {:up [0 -1] :down [0 1] :left [-1 0] :right [1 0]})
(each [key delta (pairs dirs)]
  (when (love.keyboard.isDown key)
    (let [[dx dy] delta
          [px py] player
          x (+ px (* dx player.speed dt))
          y (+ py (* dy player.speed dt))]
      (: world :move player x y))))

Example from hello-world:

(print "Hello World")

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		; -?\d+
Floats	✓		; -?\d+\.\d+
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	print
Comments	✓		; A comment
Line Comments	✓	;	; A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

Language features